Labor Disputes: Types, Measures, and Resolution Procedures

Labor Disputes and Conflict Resolution

Types of Labor Disputes

Labor disputes can be collective, plural, or individual. Conflicts of interest arise when legal disputes cannot be resolved through the courts and are based on the interpretation or approval of a norm. These must be resolved before a judge.

Measures of Conflict

Workers’ mobilizations begin to demand what they believe is best. These instruments of pressure can include meetings, assemblies, and demonstrations, allowing the conflict to escalate.

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Serious and Imminent Risk Situations: Prevention and Response

Situations of Imminent and Serious Risk

Prevention law defines situations of imminent and serious risk as those that are reasonably likely to materialize in the foreseeable future and that may pose serious harm to health.

Characteristics of Serious Risk Situations

  • Probability of Materialization: There is a rational chance of the risk being triggered. For example, a boiler with excessive pressure, a roof in poor condition that may collapse, or a deposit with a toxic agent subjected to abnormally high
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Consumer Rights and Venezuelan Laws

Consumer Protection

What is Consumerism?

Consumerism is defined as the tendency to acquire, spend, or consume goods unnecessarily. The entire population consumes.

Consumer Protection Act and the User

It aims to protect and safeguard the rights and interests of consumers and users. Consumer Protection and the User and Institute for Defense and Education of Consumers and Users (Indecu)

The Rights of Users and Consumers Enshrined in the Act

Some of these are:

  • The protection of consumer health on consumption
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Legal Justification: Premises, Proof, and Limits

External Justification in Legal Decisions

External justification for a legal decision requires more than just a logical consequence of the premises. It necessitates proving the truth of those premises. Judges do not need to resort to techniques for interpreting the rules for these problems.

Jurisdiction Issues of the Factual Premise:

Problems of Testing and Rating:

  • TEST: What warrants a factual premise is its truth, but complications arise in the field of law. There’s no single way to achieve truth,
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Understanding Employment Contract Termination: Articles 159-161

Article 159: Termination of Employment Contract

The employment contract will end in the following cases:

  1. Mutual agreement of the parties.
  2. Resignation of the employee, giving notice to the employer with at least thirty days’ notice.
  3. Death of the worker.
  4. Deadline agreed in the contract.
  5. Conclusion of the work or service which gave rise to the contract.
  6. Unforeseeable circumstances or force majeure.

Article 160: Termination Without Compensation

The employment contract ends without the right to compensation when

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Legal Concepts: Facts, Acts, and the Law Explained

Legal Concepts: Key Definitions

1. Legal Fact: Defined as an occurrence of nature or an event caused by humans, without the intent to cause legal consequences.

2. Legal Act: A voluntary or conscious human action that seeks to immediately establish legal relationships between people, creating, modifying, or extinguishing rights.

3. Difference Between Fact and Act: A legal fact is involuntary, while a legal act is voluntary.

4. Concept of Force Majeure and Fortuitous Event:

  • Force Majeure: Events that cannot
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